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Friday, May 11, 2012

A Reader's Guide to Transgender in State

Welcome to the reader's guide or, rather, table of contents that should make it easier to navigate the chronology of my story as I relate it in this web journal.

Over the course of ten months beginning in July 2011, I wrote 24 posts of a retrospective nature that give historical background about my life experience as a transgender person. I intermixed these with an equal or greater number of other posts describing my life as it was moving forward in 2011 and 2012. That intermixing makes it difficult to decipher the chronological progression. My hope is that the table of contents below will make this task easier for anyone who may wish to know the full story, chapter by chapter, from beginning to end. From 2012 onward, the progression is mainly chronological in nature, describing my life in Romania, my journey to Thailand for gender confirmation surgery, and my year in the US when I served as president of GLIFAA, the official employee association for lgbt+ employees at the Department of State, USAID, and other foreign affairs agencies.